Talk:Between the Times and the Tides

GA Review

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Reviewer: DivaKnockouts (talk · contribs) 02:35, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Lead

• Between the Times and the Tides is the ninth studio album by the American alternative rock musician Lee Ranaldo, released on March 20, 2012 on Matador Records. — Remove the.
• His first release on Matador Records and since Sonic Youth's indefinite hiatus, Between the Times and the Tides features a more straightforward songwriting approach to his prior material and includes guest musicians such as Nels Cline, John Medeski and Leah Singer. — Change Between the Times and the Tides to something else, such as "the recording" or something similar as you just mentioned the album's title in the first sentence and twice in the second paragraph.
• The album was originally intended to be a minimalist acoustic album but its sound was developed by Ranaldo during its recording at Echo Canyon West in Hoboken, New Jersey during a seven-month period in early 2011. — Link acoustic music [[acoustic music|acoustic]]
• The title of the album comes from a lyric in the song "Xtina as I Knew Her." — I don't see this information within the article, as per WP:LEAD, try to include this information somewhere within it. Then you could remove the reference from the lead.
• Its two singles—"Off the Wall" and "Shouts"—were moderate successes but failed to chart. — How were they "moderate successes" but failed to chart?

Changed to "critical successes" to avoid confusion. Idiotchalk _(t@lk)

• The album's release was followed by two tours in North America and Oceania from April to October 2012, which included appearances at ATP's I'll Be Your Mirror and the Melbourne International Arts Festival. → The album's release was followed by two tours of North America and Oceania from April to October 2012, which included appearances at ATP's I'll Be Your Mirror and the Melbourne International Arts Festival.

 Done Idiotchalk _(t@lk)

Background

• I see no mention of his previous studio album Maelstorm from Drift. Information about this album could be included to give the section some body.
• Most of the material he began arranging had been written throughout summer 2010 when the songs "just kept flowing out behind that one ["Lost"]." — Seasons are opposite in the southern and northern hemispheres, so "use neutral wording (between June and August 2010, in the second quarter of 2010)" per WP:SEASON.

 Done Idiotchalk _(t@lk)

Recording

• OK here.

Composition

• Could an image of one of these artist not be included here?
• "Waiting on a Dream", the album's opening track, contains a guitar riff that resembles The Rolling Stones' song "Paint It, Black" — According to whom?

 Done Idiotchalk _(t@lk)

Packaging

• Three months after the album's release, Ranaldo began a blog—"tidesandtimes–walkingmen99"[10]—on the social media web site Tumblr in which he encouraged users to submit pictures of themselves at the Walking Men 99.[11] — Is this relevant?

 Done Not particularly, removed. Idiotchalk _(t@lk)

Will finish this tomorrow. Regards. — DivaKnockouts 03:52, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Reference

• FN1 — Needs publisher.
• FN4 — Needs publisher.

Both are self-published publications.

• FN7 — What makes this a reliable source?
• FN8 — Doesn't look like a reliable source.

FN7 is an interview by an official organisation and FN8 is the project's official site; although the design is questionable, it's definitely official.

• FN12 — No italics to iTunes Store. Not a printed source per WP:CITEHOW.

 Done Fixed.

• FN13 — This doesn't look reliable either.

It's Ranaldo's official web site.

• FN15 — Needs publisher (Pitchfork Media Inc.)

 Done Added publisher.

• FN17 — Same as FN4

See FN4 response.

• FN19 — No italics to lescharts.com, not a printed source; see FN12.
• FN21 — No italics to Allmusic, see above.
• FN22 — Same as above, no italics to Metacritic.
• FN23 — See FN21.

 Done Fixed all.

• FN26 — Needs publisher (Silentway)

 Done Added publisher.

• FN27 — Fix publisher from FILTERmmm to Filter Creative Group.

 Done Fixed.

• FN31 — Needs publisher.

See FN1.

Putting article  On hold until issues have been addressed. Regards. — DivaKnockouts 00:45, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, addressed the issues above. Idiotchalk _(t@lk) 12:58, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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Good job on the article. — DivaKnockouts 14:22, 7 June 2013 (UTC)